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Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition offers players a trial of this historical single & multiplayer RTS experience. *Note: To unlock all features of the game please see the “Base Game” product.

Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition is a strategy, base-building and rts game developed by World's Edge, Tantalus Media and Forgotten Empires and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Released on October 15th 2020 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Vietnamese.

It has received 48,342 reviews of which 40,941 were positive and 7,401 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition into these genres:

Strategy Base-Building RTS Multiplayer Military City Builder Historical War Singleplayer Resource Management PvP Combat 3D Online Co-Op Co-op Medieval Moddable Story Rich Level Editor

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher
  • Processor: Intel i3-2105 @ 3.1GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 973 with an average CPU Passmark score of 1830 or better
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce GT 430, Radeon HD 5570, or Intel HD 4400 with an average Passmark G3D Mark of 570 or better @720p
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 42 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: 2 GB VRAM

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18 hours played
June 2026
Age of empires 1 was a great game, it got so much right, and is only now in modern times crippled by it's lack of refinement. Even including the DE edition, the game still feels archaic but in a timeless way. Age 2 is inarguably the series high point. A fantastic looking, fantastic playing tour de force of refinements and improvements over the first game which is beautifully balanced and intricately designed. It has tons of content and an active community. Age 4 is a hybrid game of 2 and 3, mixing the best of both to provide a diverse and rich experience. It's missing things from 2 that would please that crowd, but simultaneously pares back some of the more radical changes of 3 but in doing so absolutely loses some of the charm and breadth of options available in 3. So age 3, it's the ugly duckling of the family. Widely regarded by the community as the worst, so different from 2, that it's almost unrecognizable as an age game (until 4 came along). But because of that it's wholey unique. It's a new time period, it's decision space is massively expanded, offers the most diverse civ roster of all the games and even within each civ the home city system offers near limitless strategies to employ. It's by far the most charming of the games and probably the most enjoyable for a casual fan. It's campaigns are pretty lackluster but the rest of the package is extremely good. Tiny animations really sell how much love was poured into this game. Armies cheering when they are victorious in a battle, units trying not to drown when their boat is sank. Cannons blasting units backwards ragdolling them on the ground, their weapons and hats going flying. The game is full to the brim with neat details. Age 2 crowd are religiously defensive about age 2 and it being the series highpoint, and it is for the most part, but age 3 has the best ideas, the best civ roster, the most asymetrical and interesting teams. It suffers with scale, and a few odd design choices around unit snaring but for the most part age 3 is the most enjoyable to just play. Age 4 is the perfect midpoint between the two, but it's lack of physical interactions, lack of animations and minute touches makes it feel like a step back in many ways. It doesn't have dynamic maps like age 3, it doesn't have weather like rain or fog, it's biomes are set, where as many age 3 maps will pick a season when generating the map. Age 3 artillery are manned by actual people and can destroy trees. There is so many minute details that make age 3 the best to look at while playing that ground it much better than the others in the series. If you are a casual player who just wants to enjoy the spectacle of diverse looking armies fighting across dynamic maps, or someone looking to spend hundreds of hours to master a single civ and thousands to master just a small handful, this game is the most unique and deep of the 4.
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1752 hours played
May 2026
This is the funniest, the most creative and complex game of the franchise. Abandoning their players with no patches, no support and no new DLCs was just the dumbest thing Microsoft ever did to a game.
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145 hours played
April 2026
This Age of Empires 3 game is very popular in Vietnam. If the producer releases DLCs featuring Vietnamese dynasties in the mid-18th century, such as the Tay Son, Nguyen, and Le-Trinh dynasties, it will certainly be welcomed by the Vietnamese gaming community and the producer will make a lot of profit.
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266 hours played
March 2026
800+ hours in the 2007 version. Came to Age of Empires III for strategy. Instead I got: * 5 minutes of peaceful economy building * 30 seconds of panic * 200 population armies colliding * someone typing "noob" in chat Multiplayer in this game is basically: "Nice town you built there… would be a shame if 40 cavalry suddenly appeared in your base." You think you're winning. You control the map. Your economy is booming. Then the enemy ships 2 falconets. Your entire army becomes a historical event. 10/10 Will get rushed again.
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3445 hours played
Sept. 2025
AOE4 was a massive disappointment. This game remains the best of the franchise. No, sorry, AOE2 isn't the best. That's just nostalgia talking.
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Yes, Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition is free to play on Steam.

Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition is not on sale because is already free to play on Steam.

Yes, Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition received 40,941 positive votes out of a total of 48,342 achieving a rating of 8.33.
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Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition was developed by World's Edge, Tantalus Media and Forgotten Empires and published by Xbox Game Studios.

Yes, Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.

No, Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition is not playable on MacOS.

No, Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition is not playable on Linux.

Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

Yes, there are 10 DLCs available for Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition. Explore additional content available for Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition on Steam.

No, Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition PEGI 16
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Rating
8.3
40,941
7,401
Game modes
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Features
Online players
3,715
Developer
World's Edge, Tantalus Media, Forgotten Empires
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Release 15 Oct 2020
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